Devon McFarland

Video Editor / Motion Graphic Designer / Graphic Designer / VFX Artist / Photographer / Program Operations and Closed Captioning

EXPERIENCE

NBC Universal - Global Media Technician / Program Operations Contractor - Sep 2019 - Jun 2020

●Quality checked all media content prior to delivery

●Provided detailed notes to address any issues with the video, audio, and subtitles

●Utilized Wohler audio monitors to check audio sync and to identify the proper audio tracks

Starz Entertainment - Closed Caption / Program Operations Contractor - March 2019 - Aug 2019

●Created and conformed text files for broadcast of closed caption programming

●Adjusted timecodes and narrative information

●Managed media and text assets

Pineapple Ink - Lead 3D Generalist - June 2018

●Helped bring concept art to 3D

●Helped Coordinate 3D aspects between Director and Co Workers

●Help pull together all footage and put it into a presentation for Comic Con

●Helped film and record footage at Denver Comic Con 2018

Kimberly Metz Studio - Video Editor / Compositing Intern - 2018-2019

●Performed key extractions and Rotoscoping on provided footage in order to remove a dirty white background and replace it with a clean white background

●Put together all extracted footage into a commercial using adobe after effects

●Restored missing audio by using the original audio provided by the client

Freelance / Self Employed - Video Editor / Motion Graphic Design - 2011- Present

●Used 2D and 3D motion graphics and incorporated it into my edits

●Tracked 2D and 3D text into a cinematic

●Used cinema 4D to animate a 3D character and integrate him into a cinematic

●Replaced gunshot sounds and added music

●Synced footage to music and created seamless transitions between footage

●Using multiple plugins shown above to create custom color corrections

●Used audio of footage to create a narrator in the background of images

●I have a strong eye for color and creativity and an excellent sense of direction

●I am proficient in Photography and Lighting with a solid understanding in using DSLR cameras

EDUCATION

The Digital Animation & Visual Effects School - VFX Diploma, October 2017

●3D Modeling, Rigging and Animation, Look development and Lighting, Compositing, CG & Live Action Integration, Photography and Lightning, Green Screen Extraction, Mocap

●Trained to notice what good footage and bad footage looks like

●Taught by industry professionals I was given the experience needed to train me on how to film my own footage

Arapahoe Community College - Graphic Design Diploma, Jan 2015

●Photo Editing,Video Editing, Logo Design, Photography, Lighting, Illustration and Animation

Brigham Young University - Nov 2013

●Writing, Math, Project Management and Financing

PROJECTS

Trinity Education - Volunteer Video Editor - January 2019

●Created a 2D intro for the beginning of the edit using the trinity education logo and images provided by the client

●Used provided music to create seamless transitions between footage by using the beats of the music

●Color corrected footage and adjusted the black and white levels

●Created subtitles and forced narratives

●Proactivly applied all critiques and notes that were given by the client

Compositing

The Star Wars Concept Trailer: Angel Blue - The Digital Animation & Visual Effects School, 2017

●Marker removal, plate clean up

●Green screen plate extractions

●Color correction

●Grain and degrain

●Multi-Pass rendering using V-Ray

●CG integration with live action footage using alpha channels and rotoscoping

●Basic photography and lighting techniques

●Creating demo reel breakdowns in adobe premiere and after effects

YouTube - Social Media Video Editor - 2012 - 2016

●Freelancing for over 9 years for various YouTube channels

●Put together all raw footage into a cohesive story using my creativity

●Integrated 2D and 3D motion graphics into footage

●Integrated 3D animations into footage

●Tracked objects into footage

●Recorded footage through a game capture system

●Created YouTube intros using Element 3D and other plugins listed above

●Color Correcting, Color Grading

●Removed and replaced audio

●Used an ingame theater mode to help create ingame cinematics to help transition footage together smoothly

●Created thumbnails and YouTube banners

●Created YouTube intros

●Tons of problem solving experience

●Adhere deadlines that required me to take 12 to 15 pieces of raw footage recorded by team members and turn them into a 2-3 minute long edit. Some deadlines required us to create 1-2 episodes a week in order to keep up with the demand of content by viewers.

Contact Information:

adlaf2@r.postjobfree.com

https://dmcfarlandvfx.wixsite.com/website/copy-of-home

https://www.youtube.com/user/FuzionsEditz/videos?view_as=subscriber

720-***-****

SOFTWARE

●VizArt Suite

●Nuke

●Adobe After Effects

●Adobe Premiere

●Adobe Final Cut Pro

●Adobe Photoshop

●Adobe Illustrator

●Adobe InDesign

●Adobe Media Encoder

●Adobe Bridge

●MacCaption

●EZ Titles

●QC Review

●Media Player

●Media Navigator

●Sony Vegas Pro

●Autodesk Maya

●Modo

●Cinema 4D

●ZBrush

●Bonjour Tracking Software

●V-Ray Render Engine

●Canvas Instructor

●Deadline Slave

●Shotgun Studio

●Render Farm

●Microsoft Word

●Microsoft Excel

●Google Docs

●Quick Time

●Mediator X

●Jira

●Switch

●Iris QC Pro

Plugins

●Video Copilot Element 3D

●Video Copilot Twitch

●Video Copilot Optical Flares

●Video Copilot Shockwave

●RE:Vision Effects Twixtor

●Red Giant Magic Bullet

●Red Giant Trapcode

●Rowbyte Plexus

●GenArts Sapphire

●V-Ray

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